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Cinema is the greatest art in the world.

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By Sam Malone

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“But the cinephile is… a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.”
― François Truffaut

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Train Dreams: The Living of These Days

From the fears that long have bound us Free our hearts to faith and praise Grant us wisdom, grant us courage For the living of these days For the living of these days Rev. Harry E. Fosdick I often marvel at the amount of change that happens in the world in just five years. At my own personal change (mostly physically, some mentally) in just a few months. All this change amidst working, a false sense of striving (a writer who doesn’t write), and waiting. Waiting for what exact

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